Gorgeous Gardens
- Victoria Wilson (Marketing & PR)
- Apr 20, 2016
- 2 min read
It's beautiful weather here in Chester, so we'd thought we'd share some gorgeous houses with beautiful gardens from around the UK that would be perfect to sit in on a day like this!
Abbey House in Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Once part of the Benedictine Monastery, this 11-bedroom Tudor house is Grade I listed was founded around the end of the 7th Century.
To the front of the house is a level garden incorporating an upper lawn surrounded by herbaceous borders, and a knot garden in the shape of a Celtic cross (influenced by St Martin’s Cross on Iona).
Other features include a two hundred year old Mulberry tree, a Monks Head of yew, stepping stones across the river to the fernery and over 2,000 roses.
CREDIT: STRUTT & PARKER
Belmont House, East Hoathly, East Sussex
A Georgian house with meticulously planned landscaped gardens. A wide stone terrace which has views over the South Downs. There are two ponds, a rhododendron walk, a sitting area enclosed by a circular yew hedge, a paved courtyard, pool house and swimming pool, an all-weather tennis court and a paddock.
CREDIT: STRUTT & PARKER
Brockdale Cottage, Warfield, Berkshire
The five-bedroom house sits on more than five acres which are both functional and attractive. The avenue of crab apple trees yield spring blossom, which are also bee-friendly, later producing crab apples for homemade jelly and to supplement the pigs' diet.
The formal walled kitchen garden features irrigated raised beds in pegged planters alongside a steel and glass hand-built greenhouse.
CREDIT: STRUTT & PARKER
Noys End near Betchworth in Surrey.
This Grade II listed five-bedroom home has gardens laid out in a traditional English country cottage style with flowerbeds and borders, well tended level lawns and a number of established trees, particularly at the northern end of the grounds adjacent to the paddock.
CREDIT: SAVILLS
Newton House, near Bodmin, Cornwall
The gardens won the ‘Large Residential Garden’ Award in the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2015 and were created and designed by the owner. The house has 10 bedrooms and is surrounded by a National Trust estate.
CREDIT: Knight Frank
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